JUDGMENT - M.S. RATNAPARKHI, J.:---The orders passed by the respondent No. 1 on 5-8-1983 (Annexures 3, 4 and 5) promoting the respondent Nos. 2 to 6 to Category No. 8 from Category No. 9 have been challenged in this writ petition. A mandate is sought from this Court directing the responding No. 1 to promote the petitioner in Category No. 8.

2. The fact giving rise to this litigation may be briefly stated as follows:

The petitioner was working with the respondent No. 1 as a supervisor and his initial appointment dates bank to 1969. At that time, the respondent No. 1 was not in existence and it was the Nagpur District Land Mortgage Bank which was the entry appointing him. He was further promoted as supervisor in 1971 by the old Land Mortgage Bank. In 1973, the respondent no. 1---Maharashtra State Co-operative Land Development Bank was formulated by the statute and all the District Land Mortgage Banks were amalgamated with the respondent No. 1, so that with effect from the date of amalgamation the different cadres in the District Branch became the cards of the respondent No. 1. It is the contention of the petitioner that though he was working in a higher cadre of a supervisor, the pe

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